Book excerpt: A revolutionary hands-on manual for helping professionals addressing all levels of therapy from symptom removal to ego strengthening and finally ego transcendence. Blending Clinical Hypnosis, Neurolinguistics, The Enneagram of Character Fixation with non-dual insights to create a new model of the psyche and the possibility of being a True Friend. By mapping the client's reality and then altering it, Jaxon-Bear shows us how to then take away the map and reveal reality. This is a revolutionary use of therapeutic techniques. We can at last transcend the ego, the holy grail of therapy since Jung. -Dr. Murray Korngold Founder of Los Angeles Society of Clinical Psychologists The skillful means . . . in The Awakened Guide transcends its use for the amelioration of symptomatology in order to address the fundamental roots of suffering. -Dr. Yigal Joseph Former Director of the NYC Psychologist-In-Training Program